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Re: Lack of ISO 8601 dates and times



On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 20:35 -0400, Alexander Winston wrote:

> There are too many date and time notations used on the Debian Web site,
> especially the main page. Toward the beginning of
> <http://www.debian.org/>, the "April 13th, 2004" format is used. Further
> down, the "13 Apr 2004" format is used repeatedly. The "Tue, Apr 13
> 00:30:00 UTC 2004" format is at the very bottom.
> 
> I suggest using *only* ISO 8601 style dates and times onward from this
> point. The first two formats would become "2004-04-13." The third would
> become "2004-04-13 00:30:00 +00:00" or similar. (This format seems most
> legible to me; other variants are available.)

I thought that I should add that a new date format has now appeared, "13
april 2004." This brings the total number of different notations to
four.

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